The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-09
PERSONAL.

| ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND was the first
member of the Cabinet to don straw hat.
| In 1885 Viscount Bury ascertained that there
were as nearly as possible 100000 cyclists in the
| United Kingdom.
THE great Russell Sage was fined 500 by Judge
| Donahue, of New York, for failing to serve as a
| juror when drawn.
QUEEN KAPIoLANI is allowed an income of
| $1,000 by the Hawaiian government. This can
hardly be called royal income.
THE Duke of Sake Coburg- Gotha, now nearly
| 20 years old, is n great sportsman and has shot
| in bis Thuringian forests some 100 stays.
A PORTRAIT of Judge Macarthur who has Just
| retired from the Supreme Bench of the District
| of Columbia will be placed in the court room of
| the General Term.
| S. C. BARTLETT, son of the President of Dart
| mouth College, win next fall become an in
| structor in English In the American missionary
| training school at Kioto Japan.
OSCAR DICKSON, the great merchant and NUM-
| ficent patron of the Vega expeditions has been
ennobled by his friend King Oscar, of Sweden,
and it low properly styled Baron Dickson
PRoF. YOUNG, of Princeton, will observe the
total eclipse of the sun in August next at Kire-
shama, in the government of Kostroma, Russia
His companions will be the scientific representa-
| tives of Russia and England.
EDWIN BooTH's temperance as a capitalist is
noted by the New York papers. which record n
| Drucker, of Grand street and South Fifth ave
nue.. Real estate is given as security.
| QUEEN VICTORIA wrote cordial and sympa-
| thetic letter to the Duke of Cumberland on the
| occasion OF the Duchess loss of mental health
| II was the first communication between them
since their quarrel more than six years ago
EIGHTY new members were received into the
| fellowship of Plymouth church on Sunday and
even Mr.. Beechers friends are beginning to ad-
init that Emerson was right when he said:
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NINE. OFFENBAcH, widow of the composer is
dead. She was sister of NJ. Robert Mitchell. edit
| tor of the Bonapartist Pays, their father being
| Irish and their mother Spanish Nine Often.
bach's receptions In her husbands lifetime had
great popularity.
MISS A. Q. BAKER was sent as q. delegate bv
st. Luke's church, Chadd's Ford, 10 the Penn.
| sylvania Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal
church. She was refused admission by the
Committee on Seats owing to her sex. Woman
suffrage has never been very eagerly championed
by the Episcopal church.
DwIoHT l.. MOODY Is making yr3at prenora.
tions for the evangelization of Chicago He pro
poses TO erect training school in that city for
the education Of female missionaries for local
application" Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars has been subscribed for the pufposp
Fifty thousand dollars win erect the building
and 100000 will be invested as an endowment
fund
n ANNOUNCEMENT has been made of the death of
'NoL Sir Thomas Gore Browne. This gallant
commander won distinction half n century ago
10 Afghanistan, covering the retreat of the BRIT
lsh army after the disaster at Hykulzic leading
his regiment at the battles of Candahar. Cabui
and Ghuznee, commanding the rear guard dur
ing the march through the Khyber Pass, and d.
recting the storming OF the hill fort at IstaliiT
the most daring action of the war.
GEN. SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER, who is TO be
the next Governor. of Kentucky, is a man of
middle stature, with small, piercing blue eyes
snow-white mustache and imperial and a rather
ruddy face. He is between 65 and 20 years of
age. He Is wealthy. His real estate in Chicago
is said 20 be worth $4,000 About two wears
ago he married, as his second wife, a rei9ning
belle OF Richmond Va. They have bouncing
BOY year old The Generals name is Bolivar
and his wife's Betty. Hence the allit-
eratlve war-cry OF the Bucznerites now ringing
through Kentucky Of Bolivar, Betty aud the